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Wayback: A Wayland replacement for the whole X11 server
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I am trying to understand the difference between Wayback and running Xwayland in Cage.
I’m Wayback, will I still be able to run Wayland applications? Or am I literally just running an Xserver that uses Wayland for the DDX layer?
Cage is designed around running a single maximized application. Wayback is meant to run an entire x11 desktop environment.
Not sure about the second part.
He means running xwayland in rootfull mode as the one app run in cage